This is the text that’s displayed as your title in users’ browsers and search results from your community. Most subreddits use this as a place to add a tagline or very brief explanation of the theme of their community.

Description:

This is one of the most important fields to complete! It will be displayed in search results, social media links, the description under your subreddit’s name on mobile, and in Reddit search results for your community, even if it’s set to private. By taking the time to make a clear and in-depth description of your community's purpose and vision, you are not only helping people know if the community is what they’re looking for but also helping to ensure that the people who join understand why it exists and how it works.

Sidebar:

Your sidebar is where desktop users can see information you've chosen to include about the community. Many communities find this to be a good place to display rules, further descriptions of the community, calendars of events, links to related communities, and other information that they deem helpful.

Here you can choose if you'd like your community to be open to everyone (public), visible and with comments open to everyone but with posting limited to certain users (restricted), or only visible or accessible to users you've allowed in (private). You can read about the final option, gold-only subreddits, here.

Content Options:

Here you can control the types of content you want in the community. If you choose to allow all types of content, people can submit photos, links, videos, and text posts. Alternatively, you can decide to only allow links (which includes media, like photos and videos) or only allow text posts.

You can also input custom text for the submission buttons, which subscribers will use to post content in your community.

Crosspost Options (visible after subreddit creation):

Crossposting allows users to take a post from one community and easily share it with another community. If you choose to allow users to crosspost content from your community, this type of post includes an embed of the original post, along with the username, subreddit, and karma score on the original post, giving your community a way to find the original source of the content while also having a place to discuss it that lives in your community.

Wiki:

A wiki can be a good place to keep in-depth historical knowledge or frequently asked questions for your community. You can choose to use it in a variety of other creative ways as well. If you choose to enable a wiki for your community, you can decide who has access to it with the settings here.

More information on setting up a wiki, including an example of a wiki in action, can be found in our official “wiki” wiki.

Spam Filter Strength:

Reddit has a number of tools to prevent spam from entering community discussions. This field gives you an option to specify how aggressive you'd like spam filtering to be in your community. Which options you choose here can impact how much content you end up manually moderating. (Note: You can report spam by clicking the ellipsis under a post or comment, selecting “Report,” and choosing “It’s spam.” Also, you may choose to create custom filters for your community through AutoModerator.)

Other Options:

Viewers must be over eighteen years old

You must check this box if your community's content will primarily be not safe for work (NSFW).

Allow this subreddit to be exposted to users in /r/all, /r/popular, default, and trending lists

If you’d like your community to grow through organic reach in commonly accessed views by users, we recommend checking this box.

If you'd like your community to remain small (e.g., if it’s a serious support community that would be negatively impacted by a large number of new subscribers), you may prefer to keep this unchecked.

Allow this subreddit to be exposed to users who have shown intent or interest through discovery and onboarding

As with the last option, if you'd like to grow your community and are open to new users finding it based on their interest in similar communities, choose this option.

Enable marking posts as containing spoilers

Spoiler:You may find this feature useful if your community is related to entertainment (e.g., books, games, TV, or movies). This setting allows community members who may be behind on a show or popular dragon-based book series to more safely browse your community without fear of spoilers.

Show thumbnail images of content

Check this box if you feel that having thumbnails would be a positive addition to your community's experience when viewing content. (Most communities keep this box checked.)

Expand media previews on comments page

This will determine if, when clicking into the comments page of a media post, community members will see the content expanded directly at the top of the comments page or if they need to click through on the submitted link to see it. (Again, most communities keep this box checked.)

Allow image uploads and links to image hosting sites

If you'd like to allow images in your community, check this box. The main reason you might not check it is if you only want users to submit links. By unchecking this option and selecting links/media only under “content options,” you can ensure the community is only sharing links without other media. (For example, these combined settings could be useful if your community is based around sharing news.)

Allow free-form reports by users

Users may report posts or comments to you to let you know that they break site-wide or community rules. Those reports will show up for review in your moderation queue. Whether or not you check this depends on how flexible you'd like those reports to be, either allowing users to select from a list of predetermined report reasons (unchecked) or allowing them the option of writing their own as well (checked).

Exclude posts by site-wide banned users from modqueue/unmoderated

Posts from site-wide banned users are removed but will still show in your working queues if you do not to check this. You can recognize their posts because they will display differently than other content. Often, those accounts have been banned for spam, although occasionally they are banned in error.

Collapse deleted and removed comments

This option automatically collapses comments that have been deleted or removed, so that users do not see them in a given post’s comments page unless they click to expand them.

Suggested comment sort

How you want comments sorted can differ based on the purpose of your community. We recommend “none” for most communities, though some Q&A-style communities may prefer (wait for it...) “Q&A,” and other communities may prefer to sort by “top” or “live,” depending on their needs. Ultimately, you should choose whatever works best for your community.

Minutes to hide comment scores

Some communities choose to hide comment scores for a period of time to encourage users to focus on the content before being swayed by its karma score as they browse and vote. You can opt to hide the up- and downvote totals on comments for up to 24 hours.

Look and Feel (visible after subreddit creation):

After the name and description, the way that a subreddit looks is one of the best ways to show visiting users what your community is all about. We recommend styling your community for users of new Reddit, but the “Look and Feel” option (only visible after you’ve created your subreddit) allows you to customize the visual style of your community for old Reddit as well.

If you'd like to change the look of your community manually by editing the code in its Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), we recommend heading over to r/csshelp, which has some great tutorials and a helpful community of CSS enthusiasts.

Mobile look and feel:

Here you’ll find customization options that will be seen by those accessing your community via mobile, namely the color of the top banner that appears behind your community’s name in Reddit’s mobile apps. (Note: The image above may be slightly different than the settings you see before subreddit creation.)

Create:

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! You’re finally ready to create your own community. This is the last button on the settings page, and it’s only available if you haven't created the community yet. Once you hit this button, the page will reload and you’ll get confirmation that your subreddit has been created at the top of the page. If you didn't fill out one of the required fields in this form, the page will refresh with a notice indicating which field you need to fill out before creation.